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Ben Sira 5
Ben Sira 5:14
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Do not be called double-tongued and do not lay traps with your tongue; for shame comes to the thief, and severe condemnation to the double-tongued.
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If you know what to say, answer your neighbor; but if not, put your hand over your mouth.
13
Honor and dishonor come from speaking, and the tongue of mortals may be their downfall.
14
Do not be called double-tongued and do not lay traps with your tongue; for shame comes to the thief, and severe condemnation to the double-tongued.
15
In great and small matters cause no harm,
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[a].
Heb: Gk [a slanderer]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.